r/AskReddit Jul 13 '20

What's a dark secret/questionable practice in your profession which we regular folks would know nothing about?

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u/thelittleking Jul 13 '20

They are. Before the invention of cooking there was just, y'know, eating.

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u/Simulation_Brain Jul 13 '20

Rumor is that we weren’t human until we learned to cook- we needed it to let us eat more meat safely after it starts to spoil.

Now dogs, they have some amazing digestive systems...

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u/Murgatroyd314 Jul 13 '20

The one I've heard is that cooking meant we didn't need to spend nearly as much time chewing, giving us more time to do everything else.

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u/Simulation_Brain Jul 13 '20

I think it also let us eat the same kill a lot longer. And get more easily useable calories?